...Which has been proven to be bullshit whith the infamious Windows lite which completly removed IE from the system. And guess what... the shell still works. This is just another myth (partially created by Microsoft), but I've NEVER seen the shell freeze just because IE has freezed. The 2 processes are completly independent no mather what (insert name here) says.
Hmm... Do you REALLy know what you are talking about? A (rarely) crashing IE can be killed by killing the iexplore.exe process. The shell is not affected AT ALL.
Why should I be proud because it's open Source? Is Open Source a "magical status" that automatically gives your software a better quality or a better appeal? Sorry, not for me. i am the original author of a quite succesful program , which is now OS (since last year), but I am not more proud of it than I am for my other non OS projects. OTOH I actively try to support the programmers who sell commerciall versions of a good product (like Total Commander, WinRaR or The Bat!). Yes, there are good OS replacements but being OS doesn't have that "magical quality" in my eyes.
And why, oh why, is it always so important to know exactly which articles was Nr X, which poster was the first one, which was the first child born in the new millenium, how many times did Al pacino say "fuck" on Scarface and so on?...
Do we have so few problems that we have the need to statistically know EVERYTHING? Does that matter (other than to inflate the vanity of a few?).
You do realize that buying a program when there is free, just as good competition hurts the free market, right?
The free market doesn't need help. There will always be MILLIONS of people with use free programs for many reasons: some people are cheap, other are OS zealots, other may be people who really don't have the money, other may be non-profit organizations with not enopugh budget. Free market will never die. BUT, the *commercial* market, especially those single developers or small companies working their ass off... THOSE people really NEED our help. So I happily pay for my WinRAR, Total Commander, The Bat!, etc even if we have some free equivalents.
Cobian Backup (http://www.cobian.se). An amazingly good and full-featured backup program, which actually, works as a Windows Service, which is unique AFAIK
IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.com) . There's no better for image viewing an batch manipulation.
Actually, those are the only 2 freeware programs I use. The rest, I pay for them. I don't use freeware and OS programs just because. That's not a religion and I firmly believe in commercial applications, so I help the developers buying the programs I need, even if there is an almost identical free variant.
It's not unusual, Tom Jones, that a company pushes web services to their current products. Apple does the same with the.Mac services. last time I checked, when you get a mac it comes ready to sign up to the.Mac services. And no, it won't work with OS9m it's ust tied to the latest OSX "whatever cat".
Google pushes for their gMail, gOffice (or whatever it's name is), just they don't "own" an Os (yet). When they do, besure as hell they will push and tie those service to it. Hell, I'm even tired of their toolbar being bunded with wathever proggy you download from the web.
I've been creating some Silverlight apps the last monts and my impresions are very positive. I have created some flash apps in the past, and there is no comparation. With Silverlight you have a very important subset of the.NET platform ready to use. Silverlight is not only the presentation forms (whichis also goos), but you can transparently use databases, manipulate and parse HTLM, wire handler events for HTML, excellent communication capabilities, and a lot more. IMO everything is more powerful/organized than the flash conteirpart.... Way to go!
I have tried: Windows, OS2, BeOS, OSX... All disallowed words. Next thing I'll try: kdawson, maybe I'll get the response: "No trolls allowed". Gezz that guy (ktrollson) really needs help.
Well, I've been using both every day for years now. As always there is no black and white but there is a lot of grey there in between. If I need to chose, I would chose Visual Studio any day. That doesn't mean that it's perfect: it's not, but it simply feels better for my needs. My subjective opinion is that VS feels a lot more "solid" to me, faster and "logical" to my Borland eductated tastes. Havig support for C# is also a big plus to me, but that has nothing to do with the point of the article. Being OS is nota plus in my book, because I really don't prefer OS over commercial or the oposite just for the sake of it... I'm not religious in any shape or form. My 2 euro cents.
They are getting updated. An OS that is used by thousand of millions of people in the whole world, with millions of differents combinations of hardware and software is more prone to have it's bugs discovered than some other OS that is used by less people or less combinations of hw/sw. it's just naturally. Everybody have bugs and MS have it as well. Of course if MY application has a critical bug, I'm sure as hell that YOU or YOUR SISTER will never know about it. Hell, I'm sure you don't even know what my App is. If some Linuzzz distro has a critical bug, I'm sure as hell my wife or my son won't even care. My wife doesn't even know what linuzz is. But if Windows has a critical bug, I'm sure even your cat will relate because , fortunately or unfortunatly, almost every computer user in this planet uses or has used Windows in some shape and form. but really, the rules of the bugs apply equally to any developer, including you and me. We are notbetter, nor wors than microsoft in this case. Of course we BELIEVE that we are, but... think again.
We don't get paid for finding bugs. We don't want money for that. We have bugs ourselves in our programs and we are glad when our users informs us and cooperate with us. So we do the same with everyone. Being nice is a good thing. We don't point o MS and laugh in the typical 14 y.o. slashdottish way just because it's MS. We cooperate if we can. The world is a better place that way.
The university I work for in Sweden began testing with Vista when it was the called Longhorn. We discovered some bugs with the communication between Vista and some of our servers (running Solaris) back in 2004. The bug repports were submited to MS back then and the thing was fixed on the next Longhorn beta "release". It seems it's easier for some not to test and cry out like a baby when it's too late.
Hmmm.. and....who does that? Please enlight me, because i don't know any OS or even a single complex program that gets it's right without patch from day one.
So if they deploy the SP later, then they have a lot of problems or just don't care for the users. If they deploy it early, they just want the people think the system is ready... So they can't win, can they?
On the other hand if Apple deploy some patchs later, they are just getting sure that everything is fixed right, and if they deploy them early, then wow! they are just blazing fast to help their users! oh well....
So you are saying that everybody ships unready products. These days everybody have patchs. Some calls it Service Packs, others call it updates, others just patchs, and finally other call it Leopard;-)
So you are telling me that if I have 4Gb and no program is running the system should be using only 500 mb? No way... if the computer is idle, the OS better use the rest for, I don't know, indexing, caching, compacting, optimizing, or whatever. Only USE IT and give it back when needed.
This new memory management was introduced for Vista and it was about freaking time somebody though about this.... It's like downloading a file in a 10 mbs cable and using only 5 mbs "just in case" you need to download something else. Of course, ignorant people will just look at the Task manager and open their mounth.. WOW . LOOK AT THAT! The computer is iddle and my memory is full!. Well, Einstein, THAT is just how it should be!
Yeah right, because the system is using DRM every single millisecond. I hope people just will begin trying to undertand what DRM does and what it doesn't instead for just keeping repeating myths, lies and fud... Yes, Vista has support for DRM operations. But damnit, it's not just like moving the cursor magically invokes some obscure DRM routines....
I would guess that 99,9 % of all the so called performance problems in vista have ABSOLUTLY NOTHING to do with DRM in any shape and form.
Hmm... Here we go again.....Vista doesn't chew memory upp, for crying out loud! . Vista is USING the memory that is unused. What do you pay for your memory for? To have it unused? If nobody is using it, Vista will just use it damn it!. Don't worry, if some application will need it, Vista's memory manager will give it back.
Perhaps I'm dense or something, but is it me or is the Linuzzz and Open Source field getting more and more legally complicated with every single year? I remember the time when using and programming for Linuzzz was relatively easy, with none or little to care about legally. These days, everywhere you look there are legal flames flying in the sky, GPL version2 vs version3 vs version456 or BDS and the fried chicken.... Maybe it always has been so, but as a developer, I find that sometimes is easier for my nerves to program commercially for Windows than to give out something as OS.
Before anyone jumps and mods me troll (please feel free to bring down my imaginary karma), I am the developer of one succesfull program that is now open Source under the Mozilla 1.1 license, and yes, you must be carefully when you release something under any OS license. When the program was freeware , but not OS, I used to sleep a lot better than now, when the last 3 monts only I've been battling with the new team about only legal aspects... Oh, well, next piece os OS I release will be on the public domain.
Well, I use and love some MS software like the next guy. I have been using Vista and XP side by side in a mixed envioroment (with some OsX, Solaris and Linuzzzzz), and while it's true that Vista ***IS*** a spep forwardin many directions (no matter what the haters repeat ad nauseum), it is true that it has the infancy syndrom in some fields.
Many parts of the new system were rewritten from scratch for many reasons: to fit the system to the new driver model, to accomodate to the new restrictive security rules, or whatever. And it shows, but this is no news. Any new system will have problem if we are talking about something so complex and a new OS.
And it is a GREAT think that people like Mark, Raymond and other Redmond guys are talking transparently about this and not taking the Apple route: "everything is great, it's somebody else's problem". Eventually, Vista WILL mature, and after some small and big fixes here and there, the OS will be great. it IS very usable at this moment, don't get me wrong, but it needs some fixes badly.
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...Which has been proven to be bullshit whith the infamious Windows lite which completly removed IE from the system. And guess what... the shell still works. This is just another myth (partially created by Microsoft), but I've NEVER seen the shell freeze just because IE has freezed. The 2 processes are completly independent no mather what (insert name here) says.
Hmm... Do you REALLy know what you are talking about? A (rarely) crashing IE can be killed by killing the iexplore.exe process. The shell is not affected AT ALL.
I think my 4 Gb USB memory thingy is easier and faster to use for that, Thanks.
Do we have so few problems that we have the need to statistically know EVERYTHING? Does that matter (other than to inflate the vanity of a few?).
IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.com) . There's no better for image viewing an batch manipulation.
Actually, those are the only 2 freeware programs I use. The rest, I pay for them. I don't use freeware and OS programs just because. That's not a religion and I firmly believe in commercial applications, so I help the developers buying the programs I need, even if there is an almost identical free variant.
Google pushes for their gMail, gOffice (or whatever it's name is), just they don't "own" an Os (yet). When they do, besure as hell they will push and tie those service to it. Hell, I'm even tired of their toolbar being bunded with wathever proggy you download from the web.
So nothing to see here...Move on...
ActiveX is a Windows executable. Silverlight isn't.
I've been creating some Silverlight apps the last monts and my impresions are very positive. I have created some flash apps in the past, and there is no comparation. With Silverlight you have a very important subset of the .NET platform ready to use. Silverlight is not only the presentation forms (whichis also goos), but you can transparently use databases, manipulate and parse HTLM, wire handler events for HTML, excellent communication capabilities, and a lot more. IMO everything is more powerful/organized than the flash conteirpart.... Way to go!
I have tried: Windows, OS2, BeOS, OSX... All disallowed words. Next thing I'll try: kdawson, maybe I'll get the response: "No trolls allowed". Gezz that guy (ktrollson) really needs help.
Well, I've been using both every day for years now. As always there is no black and white but there is a lot of grey there in between. If I need to chose, I would chose Visual Studio any day. That doesn't mean that it's perfect: it's not, but it simply feels better for my needs. My subjective opinion is that VS feels a lot more "solid" to me, faster and "logical" to my Borland eductated tastes. Havig support for C# is also a big plus to me, but that has nothing to do with the point of the article. Being OS is nota plus in my book, because I really don't prefer OS over commercial or the oposite just for the sake of it... I'm not religious in any shape or form. My 2 euro cents.
They are getting updated. An OS that is used by thousand of millions of people in the whole world, with millions of differents combinations of hardware and software is more prone to have it's bugs discovered than some other OS that is used by less people or less combinations of hw/sw. it's just naturally. Everybody have bugs and MS have it as well. Of course if MY application has a critical bug, I'm sure as hell that YOU or YOUR SISTER will never know about it. Hell, I'm sure you don't even know what my App is. If some Linuzzz distro has a critical bug, I'm sure as hell my wife or my son won't even care. My wife doesn't even know what linuzz is. But if Windows has a critical bug, I'm sure even your cat will relate because , fortunately or unfortunatly, almost every computer user in this planet uses or has used Windows in some shape and form. but really, the rules of the bugs apply equally to any developer, including you and me. We are notbetter, nor wors than microsoft in this case. Of course we BELIEVE that we are, but... think again.
We don't get paid for finding bugs. We don't want money for that. We have bugs ourselves in our programs and we are glad when our users informs us and cooperate with us. So we do the same with everyone. Being nice is a good thing. We don't point o MS and laugh in the typical 14 y.o. slashdottish way just because it's MS. We cooperate if we can. The world is a better place that way.
The university I work for in Sweden began testing with Vista when it was the called Longhorn. We discovered some bugs with the communication between Vista and some of our servers (running Solaris) back in 2004. The bug repports were submited to MS back then and the thing was fixed on the next Longhorn beta "release". It seems it's easier for some not to test and cry out like a baby when it's too late.
That's the good side of being poor. Only the fattest duck get slayered when a hungry patent pirat attacks.
Hmmm.. and ....who does that? Please enlight me, because i don't know any OS or even a single complex program that gets it's right without patch from day one.
On the other hand if Apple deploy some patchs later, they are just getting sure that everything is fixed right, and if they deploy them early, then wow! they are just blazing fast to help their users! oh well....
So you are saying that everybody ships unready products. These days everybody have patchs. Some calls it Service Packs, others call it updates, others just patchs, and finally other call it Leopard ;-)
So you are telling me that if I have 4Gb and no program is running the system should be using only 500 mb? No way... if the computer is idle, the OS better use the rest for, I don't know, indexing, caching, compacting, optimizing, or whatever. Only USE IT and give it back when needed.
This new memory management was introduced for Vista and it was about freaking time somebody though about this.... It's like downloading a file in a 10 mbs cable and using only 5 mbs "just in case" you need to download something else. Of course, ignorant people will just look at the Task manager and open their mounth.. WOW . LOOK AT THAT! The computer is iddle and my memory is full!. Well, Einstein, THAT is just how it should be!
Yeah right, because the system is using DRM every single millisecond. I hope people just will begin trying to undertand what DRM does and what it doesn't instead for just keeping repeating myths, lies and fud... Yes, Vista has support for DRM operations. But damnit, it's not just like moving the cursor magically invokes some obscure DRM routines.... I would guess that 99,9 % of all the so called performance problems in vista have ABSOLUTLY NOTHING to do with DRM in any shape and form.
Hmm... Here we go again.....Vista doesn't chew memory upp, for crying out loud! . Vista is USING the memory that is unused. What do you pay for your memory for? To have it unused? If nobody is using it, Vista will just use it damn it!. Don't worry, if some application will need it, Vista's memory manager will give it back.
Nahh... I believe that none here gets modded down by saying M$, so why would I get modded down by saying Linuzzz? Oh wait. this is /.
Before anyone jumps and mods me troll (please feel free to bring down my imaginary karma), I am the developer of one succesfull program that is now open Source under the Mozilla 1.1 license, and yes, you must be carefully when you release something under any OS license. When the program was freeware , but not OS, I used to sleep a lot better than now, when the last 3 monts only I've been battling with the new team about only legal aspects... Oh, well, next piece os OS I release will be on the public domain.
Many parts of the new system were rewritten from scratch for many reasons: to fit the system to the new driver model, to accomodate to the new restrictive security rules, or whatever. And it shows, but this is no news. Any new system will have problem if we are talking about something so complex and a new OS.
And it is a GREAT think that people like Mark, Raymond and other Redmond guys are talking transparently about this and not taking the Apple route: "everything is great, it's somebody else's problem". Eventually, Vista WILL mature, and after some small and big fixes here and there, the OS will be great. it IS very usable at this moment, don't get me wrong, but it needs some fixes badly.